Clifton Chronicles - 05 - Mightier Than The Sword by Jeffrey Archer

Author:Jeffrey Archer
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9781250034502
Published: 2015-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Sir Giles Barrington

18,971

Mr. Simon Fletcher

3,586

Major Alexander Fisher

18____”

As soon as Giles heard the word eighteen and not nineteen, he felt confident he’d won.

“—994.”

The Tory camp immediately erupted. Griff, trying to make himself heard above the noise, asked Mr. Hardy for a recount, which was immediately granted. The whole process began again, with every table checking and rechecking first the tens, then the hundreds, and finally the thousands, before once again reporting back to the town clerk.

At 3:27 a.m., he called for silence again. “I, Leonard Derek Hardy, being the returning officer…” Heads were bowed, eyes were closed, while some of those present turned away, unable even to face the stage as they crossed their fingers and waited for the numbers to be read out. “… for each candidate to be as follows:

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